Apocalypse: The Stronghold System

Chapter 163: Selecting Personnel

"Yu'er, are Brother Chen and Katerina dating?"

Fan Xiaoyu who was eating instant noodles with the body of the Substitute Robot, turned her gaze towards Fan Chen and Katerina who were discussing. "Come on, but if they're dating, I'm fully supportive."

"Seriously?" He Peiyu was quite surprised by this answer. Other close friends did not know the relationship between Fan Chen and Fan Xiaoyu, but the two of them had already visited even before the First Disaster and knew about it.

So when there was a reunion and Fan Xiaoyu brought Fan Chen along, the two of them were quite confused, let alone introducing him to the others as a girlfriend. From this, the two of them thought that Fan Xiaoyu did not want Fan Chen to be in contact with another woman, at least until her age was completely mature.

Fan Xiaoyu looked at He Peiyu and was silent for a while, before she finally understood and said, "It wasn't me who brought Brother along, but it was Big Brother who forced his way in, but Big Brother who insisted on coming along, he didn't want to see any men flirting. On the way, my brother asked me to introduce him as his girlfriend at the reunion."

Jia Fefei who from the beginning was silent, finally spoke, "If the two of them get married, you will not be noticed anymore."

Fan Xiaoyu was speechless and somehow felt a little reluctant. "If so, I'll ask him to hold back first."

"Pffl!" He Peiyu spouted water from within his mouth; coughed a few times and said, "You said you would support him, and now forbid them?"

Fan Xiaoyu rolled her eyes, gave a cold snort and replied, "Their relationship is still unclear, although I support it, but for now Big Brother should pay attention to me."

Fan Xiaoyu turned his head to look sharply at He Peiyu. "What about you? Looks like there's a junior in the army that you've been paying a lot of attention to."

He Peiyu was stunned, then lowered his head. That was said junior, but in fact was four years older than him, and this was the group that was rescued at the beginning, before Team Alpha joined Mingyue Defense.

Jia Meiya glanced, then refocused on her snack while saying, "Peiyu likes it."

Jia Meiya was a person who loved to eat, but her body remained ideal. However after the First Disaster, he started to reduce his portion of the meal due to the economy, but after joining Mingyue Defense, he did not lack food, especially using the Substitute Robot, he could eat as much, he could eat as much, eat anything that he did not dare before for fear of being poisonous.

He Peiyu was speechless, but his hand moved hitting Jia Meiya's shoulder.

Due to the incident of Fan Xiaoyu attacking Fan Chen earlier, whenever there was an attack aimed at a colleague, the pain would be lowered to the most basic, unless there was already agreement from both sides, like a match trainer, where the pain uses a ratio above 50%.

Fan Chen who from the beginning discussed with Katerina, finally joined. "Tomorrow morning, there will be a match practice with the original body in the Barracks, and after the match practice, at least after getting the top people, we will go to a certain place to carry out the mission. The one who completes the mission well will get the Replacement Robot and go to Mars."

"But in addition to missions, there are still many tests being conducted before being able to go there. Must understand space-related material, understand what actions should be taken. And will do a living simulation that matches the Martian environment in the Virtual Reality World."

Fan Xiaoyu tilted her head and asked, "If it's wearing a real body, Yu'er understands why we should do the simulation. But since it uses a Replacement Robot, why should it?"

Fan Chen took a chair and sat down, extending his hand to pick up the meat on the table that had matured. "It's very comfortable to eat like this, there's no satiety, but to enjoy the taste."

He looked up, looked at Fan Chen and replied, "If it's just research like on the Moon, then it doesn't matter. But this time it's different, maybe there's a battle going on there, and if it's not used to gravity, even if it's using a Replacement Robot, we can't do anything about it."

"Battle ..." Fan Xiaoyu muttered softly. "Space Worm?!" He looked up at his brother.

Fan Chen nodded, he had no intention of hiding it at all. "Yes, Space Worms come from outside the Solar System, there's a chance they don't just come down to Earth. The original goal was indeed to eliminate all humans after infecting animals, but remember, not all Space Worms went down, we suspect some others went to Mars or even Mercury to collect energy ..."

Jia Fefei and He Peiyu were unable to hide their expressions of shock. Although they know that Space Worms are named after the characteristics of these creatures that can live in space, but they do not know about Space Worms that come from outside the Solar System.

In contrast to the two, Fan Xiaoyu nodded her head, her eyes firm and fiery revealing her determination. Although he could not go using the original body that had the Fire Element Ability, but he was very excited to go to Mars and hunt there.

Fan Chen observed his sister's expression and smiled. He himself knew what his younger brother was thinking, as he himself did wish for the Elemental Ability to be used despite using a Substitute Robot. To date, Wang Bin, Xu Chen, Katerina and the Brain Neurosurgeon are still researching more on VR Pods, trying to maximize them so that the Element Ability can be used.

If it could use the Lightning Element Ability in the body of the Substitute Robot, it would be even better. Although Fan Chen was arguably powerful, but he was afraid of dying, he would never go to such a dangerous place of outer space using a real body.

For on Earth, despite using the original body and being seriously injured, there was still a chance to be saved. But in space? For example, the oxygen protectors in the city built out there are destroyed, so you can be sure, death is the answer.

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—The Next Day—

Today the Barracks are open to the public, everyone can come to watch this sudden event.

The event has a wide variety of agendas and there is a knockout system. First, all soldiers of various ranks would conduct physical tests, and of course they were separated based on their respective ranks.

But for Fan Chen, Alpha Team, Fu Shen, Fu Shan, Yang Menghu, Yu Fengsan, Jackson and Robert there was no need to go down.

Guardian★ Yu Wang, he did not participate in the personnel selection, and he also did not take part in the mission to Mars. He had the task of monitoring the training of all the soldiers in the Barracks, and would occasionally go to the Mothership to discuss with General Luo Ti directly.

Soldiers gathered for the election were unaware that the event was being used to select personnel to serve on Mars. Even if using a VR Pod, they would stay at least a whole month.

The soldiers that were here, they only knew this event was used to select the personnel that would go out of Mingyue Defense, clearing the threat out there.

Fan Chen looked at all the soldiers lined up neatly, there were at least over 500 personnel, and it was a large number considering that only 3,928 humans lived in Mingyue Defense.

Of the 500 personnel present here, Fan Chen would choose 20% of them to carry out different missions in each place.

Then they will be judged, but not on a team basis, but individually assessed. Teamwork is important, but on Mars that is still alien to humanity, especially the Space Worms that are there, individual abilities are very important. After all, a capable individual can definitely work with others, and the best personnel to be on one team would be amazing.

Naturally, they would not be directly sent to Mars, having to conduct training repeatedly in the Virtual Reality World.

After repeated and completed assessments, 40 personnel will be sent to Mars.

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